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Tag: National Humanities Medal
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Dr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham: Shaping a Legacy Through History
Dr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham envisions the role of the historian today as one who understands the present by examining the past that shaped it. In the same regard, the distinguished scholar sees history as a way to begin to talk about a more “fair and equitable” future.
March 12, 2019
News Roundup
Tom Wolfe, Pioneering Journalist and Novelist, Dies at 88
Tom Wolfe, the influential writer whose unconventional, exuberant prose laid the foundation for so-called New Journalism and fueled his best-sellers The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities, has died. He was 88. Lynn Nesbit, Wolfe’s agent, told the Associated Press that Wolfe died of an infection Monday in a hospital in Manhattan. Wolfe’s […]
May 16, 2018
African-American
Pioneering Historian Mines Black Women’s History
As a young professor at Purdue University in the early 1970s, Dr. Darlene Clark Hine was confronted with a challenge that would ultimately change her career trajectory and position her as one of the nation’s most prominent historians.
March 6, 2018
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